Cooking range and stove



April 16,1935. J. TELLER- ET AL 1,998,343

COOKING RANGE AND STOVE Filed Dec. 17, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 I I I 5 INVENTORS: 1 12 11 14 21 -J o b 22214212? BY Ari'karfldk' l r ATTORNEY.

April 16, 1935. J. TELLER ET AL 1,998,343

COOKING RANGE AND STOVE Filed Dec. 17, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 JNVENTORS.

Jacob Telleni, By Arthur-RS072 z,

. A TTORNER Patented Apr. 16, 1935 '1 Q Q UNITE-D: STATES-PATENT OFFICE COOKING RANGE AND s'rovE Jacob Teller, New Rochelle, and Arthur P. Schulz,

New York, N. Y., assignors to Teller Stove Designing Corporation, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application December 17, 1931, Serial No. 581,760 4 Claims. (Cl. 126-339) This invention relates to cooking ranges and racks, and showing clearly the manner of mountstoves, and particularly to, the oven construction ing the latter. 1

and the rack arrangement which supports the Referring now to the drawings by numerals of food or cooking vessels within the oven. reference, I indicates a gas stove or range, hav- One of the objects of the'present invention is ing an upper oven compartment 2 with insulated 5 the provision of an oven rack which may be moved rear and side walls 3, and 3a, an insulated top by sliding into and out of the oven, whereby the 4, and an insulated front swinging door 5, the material upon the rack or racks is more readily construction of which may be of any preferred accessible, avoiding the necessity of the operator conventional form, the oven 2 at the top howreaching into the'ovenin order to load or remove ever, being provided with a false inner top' 6, 10 the food containers, it being well known that perspaced a suitable distance from the inner plate sons have very often burned themselves or their of the insulated top, to provide a channel or clothing by contact with hot oven walls or other duct 8, through which the fumes produced by parts thereof. p cooking may be conveyed from the oven through Another great advantage is that the mounting a forward port 9, and out to the atmosphere or 15 of the rack permits easier and more ready inspecchimney by means of a ventilator Ill arranged tion of the material being cooked in the oven, in the rear wall 3, as shown. since it is necessary only for the operator to give By arranging the port 9 toward the front a slight pull on an operating hand piece or pull of the false top, the heat is caused to travel the member, to bring the entire rack out of the oven depth of the oven before escaping to the atmos- 20 for convenient access of the person using the phere, thereby utilizing the maximum heating range. capacity of the heat produced by the burner ll,

Another feature resides in a sliding rack carrier arranged in the lower broiler compartment l2 in which provision is made for supporting or below the floor M which separates the upper and carrying simultaneously, and moving as a unit, a lower compartments. 5 plurality of utensil racks, whereby individual Since the predominating feature of our presactuation of the several racks is unnecessary. ent invention resides in a mechanism for sup- Another feature resides in the particular porting the racks in the oven in a manner that mounting of the rack carrier upon anti-friction that which is supported thereby may more devices, whereby the entire carrier and racks readily be accessible to the operator using the 30 thereon is easily slidable into and out of the oven. range, we have provided the novel arrangement,

Another feature residesinthe peculiar arrangeshown more specifically in detail in Figure 3, ment of the rack mounting, whereby the racks wherein only those elements are illustrated, may individually be readily'placed or removed which are necessary for the operation of the apfrom said carrier, by a simple tilting movement of paratus. 35 anyrack, and whereby said racks, when placed in As shown in Fig. 2, the floor I4 is provided position are securely held by their own weight with a central groove IS, in which is slidably against any accidental displacement. mounted a bar It preferably of inverted T-shape,

Many other features and advantages will a and comprising a head having lateral flanges I1 40 pear to stove and range manufacturers and to and a perpendicular flange IS, the lateral flanges 40 others familiar with the operation of the same, lying beneath complemental flanges I9 which particularly the housewife or cook. .parallel and form the sides of the central groove, In the accompanying drawings, forming a part while the perpendicular flange lies within said of this specification, groove. Adjacent its rear end, the bar is pro- Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of an oven vided with a pair of anti-friction rollers 20 45 and showing the application of our improvement which take under the flanges paralleling the thereto; central groove, while journaled suitably in the Fig. 2 is a detail view of the bottom of the oven, walls forming the groov at its forward end, and the rack carrier and racks in perspective; the are another pair of anti-friction rollers 2| upon outline of the oven being indicated in dotted lines; which the bar rides during its sliding movements 50 Figure 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing into and out of the oven. the rack carrier extended to permit access to the The bar 16 is provided at its rear end with an material on the racks, and upright or perpendicular rack supporting post Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective detail view 22, preferably formed as an integral part of the of a portion of the rack carrier and one of the bar It, as by casting, although said bar and 55 post may be formed as separate members suitably secured together. The construction is such however, that the bar 16 rigidly supports the rack post.

The rack supporting post 22 comprises a T- shaped member from the head 23 of which extends a flange 24 provided with a vertical series of notches 25, each terminating at its irmer end, in a downwardly extending angular cutaway recessed portion 26, which latter serves to receive a portion of the rack 28 now to be described.

The rack 28 comprises a rectangular frame including longitudinal strips 29 preferably welded at their ends to the transverse bars 30 and 3| respectively of said frame, and in general quite similar to those racks commonly in use today.

We have, however, provided a construction in which the racks are supported by and, moved with the sliding bar l6 and post 22, as distinguished from the usual structure in which the several racks are mounted upon fixed supporting hooks, pins or the like secured on the walls of.

the oven. To this end, the rear transverse bar 30 is provided substantially midway its length, with a bracket designated generally by the numeral 33, said bracket comprising a yoke 34, which in use is adapted to straddle the forwardly ex tending flange 24 of the post.

The yoke 34 is provided with a pair of lateral flanges 34', terminating at their uppenends in hooked portions 36 which are preferably spotwelded as at 31 to the rear bar 30, as clearly' shown in Figure 4. The yoke 34 is provided with a horizontal brace bar 38, preferably spot-welded intermediate its length to the crown of the yoke as at 39, the ends of said brace bar being also preferably spot-welded as at 40 to immediately adjacent longitudinal strips 29 upon each side of the yoke respectively.

The weight of the rack alone, or the added weight of any article placed thereon causes the lateral flanges to rest against the flanges of the head oi the post 22, while the rear bar 39 rests in and is restrained against the forward wall of the cut-away portion 26. It will thus be observed *that the rack may be supported entirely through the bracket 33, yet capable of ready removal from the post for vertical adjustment or otherwise by simply lifting the yoke of the bracket out of the notch which it occupies.

When an additional support for the racks may be necessary, we may pr=vide the inner lining plates 4| of the side walls with a vertical series of supporting hooks or pins 42, arranged at points of elevation similar to that of the notches in the rack supporting post 22. By this arrangement, the racks will have a forward as well as rear support, the hooks or pins serving as supports for the racks along the side members thereof during sliding movement of the bar l6 and its associated rack carrying post 22.

For the purpose of moving the rack carrier into and out of the oven on its anti-friction bearings. we provide the outer extremity of the slidable bar I6 with a finger piece or pull 44, shown more particularly in Figure 2.

What---we claim as'new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a rack supporting means for cooking apparatus, a vertical support having rear flanges and a flange extending perpendicular thereto and provided with a notch, a rack having a supporting bar adapted to rest in said notch, and a yoke carried by said bar adapted to straddle said perpendicular flange and rest against said rear flanges.

2. In a rack supporting means for cooking apparatus, a vertical support having rear flanges and a flange extending perpendicular thereto and provided with a notch, a rack having a supporting bar adapted to rest in said notch, and a yoke carried by said bar having side members adapted to rest against the rear flanges, and a portion adapted to straddle said perpendicular flange.

3. In a. rack supporting means for cooking apparatus, a vertical support having rear flanges and a flange extending perpendicularly thereto and provided with a notch, a rack having a supporting bar adapted to rest in said notch, and a yoke carried by said bar and adapted to rest against said rear flanges.

4. In a rack supporting means for a cooking stove oven, a vertical support having a rear flange and having a plurality of hooks on the front face thereof, a rack having a supporting member cooperating with either of said hooks, and a yoke carried by said supporting member having side members adapted to rest against said rear flange.

JACOB TELLER. ARTHUR P. SCHULZ. 

